21 / he + neos / many names

hullo hullo!! i’m kozzax, extra names and neos found here! nonbinary aroace furry who thinks maybe a little too much about his favorite fictional characters <3

feel free to send in asks!! i make no promises about responding quickly but i do my best to respond eventually

i use two blogs: this blog, for reblogging things and posting my own rambles, and @kozzax-draws, for any and all of my visual art. in practice, that makes this a multi-fandom blog, because i’ll generally reblog whatever’s caught my interest at any given moment in time.

i also have an ao3 account under kozzax for the vast majority of my written art.

i am currently focused on: homestuck exiles, hollow knight: silksong, and deltarune; with most of my original posts being about homestuck exiles only.

completed projects

the wvpm manifesto: a (mostly) comprehensive assessment and study of wv and pm’s stories throughout homestuck, with mentions and brief assessment of ar. specifically looks at them through the lens of their relationship with each other. an ar addendum is currently planned, but i will likely not begin work on it until december.

ongoing projects

meteor moments: a series of loosely connected one-shots focused on wv’s relationships with the kids on the meteor.

epic exile au: an au inspired by epic the musical, featuring pm as odysseus on her journey back to exile and jack noir as the primary antagonist standing in her way. there is no actual writing for this one, but i am always open to talk about it!!! i rotate it so much!!!

exile time loop: just as it says on the tin. an exile time loop au. wv and pm loop back in time to save ar and this sets off a series of many many loops. as with eeau there is not much written here, but i am starting to plan out several loops and considering turning it into my post-mm project.

pm travels: a series of four art pieces depicting pm on each of the beta kids’ planets: lolar | lohac | lofaf | lowas

PUNIC WARS THREE

PUNIC WARS FOUR

“Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

Apparently people are rediscovering this post somehow and I think that’s pretty cool! Having experienced similar violations of trust in my youth, this is an important issue to me, so I want to add my personal story:

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

1. You do not respect their rights as an individual.
2. You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.
3. You probably haven’t been listening to them.

Information about almost every issue that you think you have to snoop for can probably be obtained by communicating with and listening to your child.

Part of me is really excited to see that the original post got 200 notes because holy crap 200 notes, and part of me is really saddened that something so negative has resonated with so many people.

“200 notes”

[SpongeBob Narrator voice] Ten Years Later

Comfortable hole, bye

Comfortable hole, bye

mr beast partnering with the lds church to help bring in younger people so they can marry off said younger people was not in my 2026 bingo

mr beast partnering with the lds church to help bring in younger people so they can marry off said younger people was not in my 2026 bingo

OK. I lied.

If I'm going to be completely honest, me being burnt out or tired isn't the only reason why I haven't been drawing much, I was also using my leftover energy to draw oc art and Ghostbusters fanart.... Sorry.

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OK. I lied.

If I'm going to be completely honest, me being burnt out or tired isn't the only reason why I haven't been drawing much, I was also using my leftover energy to draw oc art and Ghostbusters fanart.... Sorry.

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yes we are all very impressed with the depth of your research. Your 27 citations in two sentences, however, goes past ‘impressive’ and becomes ‘your historical article looks like the goddamn warrior cats wiki page for firestar’

yes we are all very impressed with the depth of your research. Your 27 citations in two sentences, however, goes past ‘impressive’ and becomes ‘your historical article looks like the goddamn warrior cats wiki page for firestar’

oh you meant that literally.

popular culture used to be very much about eroticism. rockstars used to be on stage in sequins and thongs and thigh high boots playing guitars like they were masturbating. girls used to wear velvet mini dresses and no bras and red-brick-brown lipstick and mascara on their bottom lashes. people used to have body hair on television and in the movies. people used to be sweaty. people used to touch each other over denim and under cotton. foreplay used to be staring at someone over the rim of a glass across a bar across a park across a dinner table. people used to want. i think we’ve lost something

popular culture used to be very much about eroticism. rockstars used to be on stage in sequins and thongs and thigh high boots playing guitars like they were masturbating. girls used to wear velvet mini dresses and no bras and red-brick-brown lipstick and mascara on their bottom lashes. people used to have body hair on television and in the movies. people used to be sweaty. people used to touch each other over denim and under cotton. foreplay used to be staring at someone over the rim of a glass across a bar across a park across a dinner table. people used to want. i think we’ve lost something

Not to be rude but you think our current pop culture ISNT sexualized enough? All we have is sexual content and it’s not even quality. Just because it’s not the exact aesthetic of eroticism that you prefer doesn’t mean that something is “lost”, it’s just done differently

there’s a difference between eroticism and sexualization ☝️🤓 we have too much sexualization and not enough eroticism. eroticism is suggestive, not overtly sexual. i know you don’t realize this but you’re actually kind of agreeing with me. we have too much low quality over sexualized content with no meat or context or purpose. everybody needs to put their clothes back on and start staring at each other from across crowded rooms NOW! 🫵

guys can we get some love for non-passing trans folks, it’s a hard world we live in

guys can we get some love for non-passing trans folks, it’s a hard world we live in